SHOPPING TIPS: Most of the supplies for this project are readily available at your neighborhood craft shops and office-supply stores. Invoice-size expanding files, with built-in alphabetical, monthly, or numeric indexes, fit most vintage photo albums. To ensure a proper fit, take a file with you when searching for photo albums. (Pendaflex's Open-Top Indexed Expanding File is similar to the one shown here; find it at staples.com.)

For how-to's, turn the page.

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STEP 1: Carefully cut out photo album pages using an X-acto knife. To add the ribbon tie (shown on previous page), use a hot-glue gun to secure the ribbons to the inside of the album covers. For a stronger hold, cut the ribbon long, and glue it deep inside the album.

Most of the supplies for this project are readily available at your neighbourhood craft shops and office-supply stores

Wendell T. Webber

STEP 2: Place file inside the album. Using a hot-glue gun, run glue along the edges of one side of the file. Attach to the album by holding in place until glue dries. Repeat on other side.

IN THE DETAILS: Consider adding a ribbon border for a subtle accent. Before gluing the file into the album, open the file as wide as possible. Line the top edge with a layer of Fabri-Tac glue, then cover with a precut strip of ribbon. Repeat on the other side.

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